I have a collection of daily MP3s that I'm expected to upload to a web server once a month — they're named with a consistent format (ex. 10-17-11 Always Expect the Best # 1.mp3) and for each file, I have to generate an .m3u file with the URL to the web-server link. At the moment, I manually create each .m3u file and save it in relation to the MP3.
There must be a way to generate the .m3u files automatically — they usually are in the format of http://url/audio/2011/10-17-11_.mp3. I've created a plain text list of each filename on a separate line — if possible, I'd like to take that list and parse it into individual .m3u files.
I'm not sure what I should be using to do this — Python, Ruby, maybe just AppleScript?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
you probably could do it with any of those, i'll give you a few pointers with python:
with open("my_file","r") as fin: ## open a file for reading
i = 0
for line in fin: ## iterate through all lines
newline = line + line.split(" ")[0] ## create a new line
with open("output"+str(i),"w") as fout: ## open a file for writing
fout.write(newline) ## write...
i+=1
This script reads a file and for each line appends the first word and writes it to its own file.
You can modify the loop code to aggregate several lines each time and write them to a file. And you can extract information from the line you read and use it to construct the new line.
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I use the following to save screen output to a file
writefile("file.txt"),
tex(expression),
closefile()
The above sends the output of the tex() to the file automatically. which is all and well and what I want. (side-point: It also sends an annoying NIL line each time to the file, which I had to parse put later).
Now, when running the above code again, the file is appended to, which is not what I want. I want to either overwrite the file each time, or if there is a way to delete the file, so I can call delete on it before.
I looked at help and not able to find a command to delete a file, and I also see no option to tell writefile() to overwrite the file?
Is there an option or way around this? I am on windows 7, Maxima version: 5.36.1
Lisp: SBCL 1.2.7
I guess you are trying to capture the output of tex into a file. If so, here are a couple of other ways to do it:
tex (expr, destination);
where destination is either a file name (which is appended) or a stream, as created by opena or openw and closed by close. By the way, destination could be false, in which case tex returns a string.
with_stdout (destination, tex (expr));
where again destination is either a file name (which is appended or clobbered, as determined by the global flag file_output_append) or a stream.
with_stdout could be useful if you want to mix in some output not generated by tex, e.g., print("% some commentary");.
I have to develop an iOS application that can read the data from a CSV file hosted on a domain. Is there any standard APIs that can help me to do this? I don't need to download but just read the file because the file will be updated for every two mins.
I recommend Dave DeLong's CHCSVParser library for parsing.
You will have to download the file, that is the only way to get it from the remote host to your device. A CSV File is a text file with data separated by a comma(','). Download the file from the the remote host, read the file line by line, split the line string that was read from the file;
For example:
1,2,3,4,1,2,3 ...Line 1
Split using ',' as a delimiter and add the split values into an array, the result will be:
array_line_one = {1,2,3,4,1,2,3};
A lot of my website content is stored in a database for this reason I created a script that goes through the content stored in the database and extracts strings that must be added to my .pot file. (which already contains other strings).
I created a function called "add_string($s)" that should add one string to the .pot file but I'm not sure how to do it.
function add_string($s)
{
// Add string to .pot file?
}
How can this be done?
Thanks
A pot file is just a text file in certain format.
You can use file_put_contents with the FILE_APPEND flag to add text to a file.
With regards to the format of the data argument of the file_put_contents call, you will have
lines referencing files starting with #:, lines referencing instructions to translators starting with #. and then lines starting with msgid with the message id and msgstr the message value. You will want to include the newline \n after each line.
See here for an example of the pot file format.
You will probably want to keep track of your strings in PHP data structure as you write them to file or before you write them to file, to avoid duplicating message values in the template.
Is there a way to read data from an external data sheet like excel, Text file etc. in eggPlant?
When running the same script for various set of Input parameters this would prove useful for me instead of hardcoding the values..
-Siva
Since this is the most viewed Eggplant question, I'll give it a more robust answer.
Yes! Using data from a data file is a fantastic way to parameterize your test without hardcoding!
Saving Data
To do so, you have to save your data in .csv or .txt format, within the Suite's Resources directory. This allows you to open and interact it from within Eggplant Functional.
Importing Data
In your script, you can reference these data files with just their filename, for example,
put ResourcePath("myData.txt") into FilePath
will save the entire file myData.txt from the Resources directory into a variable FilePath.
Accessing Data
You can then access each row of that file like any other file.
put line 1 of file FilePath into Name
put line 2 of file FilePath into DOB
If you save your data as a .csv, you can specify a row and column of a specific piece of data.
put item 2 in line 1 of file FilePath into Last_Name
Read more about reading files in the Eggplant Documentation!
For more complicated resource files, read this page in the Eggplant Documentation!
1. Enter the data in the excel sheet and save it as a CSV file.
2. Piece of code:
repeat with theData= each line of file "D:\TestData.csv"
log item 1 of theData
end repeat
I have to develop an iOS application that can read the data from a CSV file hosted on a domain. Is there any standard APIs that can help me to do this? I don't need to download but just read the file because the file will be updated for every two mins.
I recommend Dave DeLong's CHCSVParser library for parsing.
You will have to download the file, that is the only way to get it from the remote host to your device. A CSV File is a text file with data separated by a comma(','). Download the file from the the remote host, read the file line by line, split the line string that was read from the file;
For example:
1,2,3,4,1,2,3 ...Line 1
Split using ',' as a delimiter and add the split values into an array, the result will be:
array_line_one = {1,2,3,4,1,2,3};